International Symposium on LifeChips 2006
Program, Day 1

Session host: Nano/Micro Technology for Cancer
Nancy Allbritton
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Physiology and Biophysics, Biological Sciences
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine

Cells, Microchips, and Clinical and Biological Information
Mehmet Toner
Professor, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Microsystems Bioengineering Facility, Massachusetts General Hospital

Biomedical Nanotechnology for Personalized and Predictive Oncology
Shuming Nie
Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair, Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering; Hematology/Oncology
Director of Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center

SENSER Nanotags: New Optical Detection Tags for Life Science and Diagnostics
Michael J. Natan
President,
Oxonica, Inc. (formerly Nanoplex Technologies)

SQUID chips for cancer
Saburo Tanaka
Professor, Department of Ecological Engineering
Center for Future Technology, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

Live Approach in Life Science & Drug Discovery: A Magnetic Nanoprobe Technology for Imaging Molecular Interactions Inside Living Human Cells
Tae Kook Kim
Professor of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Director of Molecular Medicine Imaging Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)

Applying Semiconductor Technologies and Metrology Tools to Biomedical Research: Manipulation and Detection of Single Molecules
Andrew Berlin
General Manager, Biomedical and Life Sciences
The Fred Hutchinson Research Cancer

Session host: BioMEMS for Implantable Devices
Mark Bachman
Associate Director, Integrated Nanosystems Reserach Facility
Assoicate Professor Adjunct, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering

Second Sight Retinal Prosthesis
Robert J. Greenberg
President and CEO,
Second Sight® Medical Products, Inc.

Drug delivery pumps today – how far have we come?
Bill Van Antwerp
Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer
Medtronic MiniMed Inc.

Bringing Hearing to the Deaf: Challenges for MEMS
Francis "Sandy" Spelman
Professor Emeritus, Department of Bioengineering
Senior Researcher, Advanced Cochlear Systems

Toward Implantable Micro Drug Delivery System
SangHoon Lee
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Korea University, Korea

Sensory Substitution and Brain-Machine Interfaces
Paul Bach-y-Rita
Professor, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, and Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Si microprobe array chips for in-vivo recording of neural activity
Makoto Ishida
Professor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Director of Intelligent Sensing System Research Center
Toyohashi University of Technology